Installing XBMC on Windows 7 is normally extremely easy and straight forward. However, if you want to install XBMC on a Windows 7 virtual machine that is setup within VirtualBox, then it’ll take a few additional steps. If you want to learn how, continue reading.

In today’s post, I will show you have to mount a Windows shared folder in Ubuntu 12.04 from within VirtualBox. A prerequisite is that you have to have VirtualBox Guest Additions already installed. If you haven’t done so and would like to know how, read this previous post where I show you how. Otherwise, continue reading and I’ll show you how to mount a shared folder.